At its meeting in October 2012, the Board will decide whether to amend the bylaws of San Francisco Zen Center to provide for a new abbatial structure consisting of a Central Abbess/Abbot and an Abiding Abbess/Abbot at City Center and at Green Gulch Farm, instead of the co-abbess/abbot structure we currently have. The specific wording of the bylaw change is set forth in the Final Report of the Joint Committee (see the report and attachments here/below). We invite you to examine carefully the Report and recommended bylaw change. It has already been distributed to the current leadership and residents of Zen Center. We invite your feedback, questions and comments about the proposed bylaw change. Please email them to our Corporate Secretary at secretary@sfzc.org.